Category: Crime

The Ogun State Police Command has arrested a suspect identified as Ibrahim Salisu for allegedly macheting his brother, Malaimi Yellow, to death over alleged sexual demand. The incident happened in the Araromi Street, Sango-Ota area at about 11:00 p.m. on Friday. It was learnt from the police that the 54-year-old had been allegedly pestering his little brother for sex. The police alleged that following Yellow’s ceaseless demands, the younger brother was said to have drawn out a machete to end his life. The spokesperson for the command, Odutola Omolola, on…

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A child trafficking syndicate that sold children between N400,000 and N500,000 in Lagos, Anambra and other states in the South has been arrested by the Kano State Police Command on Thursday. Also, the Police rescued seven children from the nine-man syndicate. The children were aged between three and eight years. It was learned that they were stolen as infants. Meanwhile, before selling off the children, their names were usually changed. The Commissioner of Police, Mohammed Gumel, paraded the suspects at the Bompai Police headquarters of the state. Gumel said the…

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A child rights advocacy group in Bayelsa, DO Foundation, on Thursday, kicked against the December 26, traditional marriage between a four-year-old and a 54-year-old man at Akeddei community in Sagbama Local Government Area of the state. The foundation, in a statement made available in Yenagoa, described the marriage as illegal, criminal, and a child marriage which is against the constitution and the Child Rights Act. The statement was signed by the foundation’s chairperson, Mr Elvis Mannie. The foundation condemned child marriage as horrendous, despicable, and a criminal activity. According to…

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Selifat Funke Cole, 70-year-old grandma, and her son, Babajide Ayorinde Cole, have been arrested by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, with 117.900kg of cannabis sativa. The arrest followed the raiding of a house in the Mushin area of Lagos where the woman resides with her family. The spokesman of the agency, Femi Babafemi made this known yesterday while disclosing that the agency’s sniffer dogs uncovered cocaine in an India-bound shipment at the cargo terminal of Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA) Ikeja, Lagos. The NDLEA spokesman said…

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The Kano State Police command has arrested a housewife, identified as Hafsat Surajo, for killing their domestic staff, Nafiu Hafiz, who prevented her from attempting to commit suicide. Hafsat who made the confession when she was paraded before newsmen at the Kano Police headquarters, said the ugly incident leading to Nafiu’s death occurred when a quarrel ensued between them as he prevented her from achieving her mission. According to her, “I killed him because he prevented me from killing myself. “While he attempted to snatch the knife from my hand,…

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A couple suspected of trafficking a one-month-old baby from Lagos to Onitsha, has been arrested by the Anambra State Police command. This is contained in a statement signed by the State Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Tochukwu Ikenga, and made available on Tuesday in Onitsha. Ikenga said that the interception was made at Bridgehead in Onitsha on Sunday. According to him, the couple was travelling in a luxury bus belonging to a popular transport company with the baby when a co-passenger observed that the mother could not breastfeed the baby…

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The Economic and Financial crimes commission (EFCC), has stated in a press statement released by the agency via its verified X profile, that Victor Oche Odeh, an undergraduate arrested for fraud, is 19 years old and not an infant as purportedly claimed. The EFCC has debunked the viral claim purporting that the internet fraudster, Victor Oche Odeh is seven years old. The statement added that Odeh was among five Nigerian university students which the agency secured their convictions after admitting to the charge brought against them. The statement reads: “The…

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The United States Securities and Exchange Commission has said  Tingo Group Inc. lied about having $461.7m in its subsidiary Tingo Mobile’s Nigerian bank accounts when it only had $50 in said accounts. SEC announced this on Monday when it announced charges against the Mmobuosi Banye also known as Dozy Mmobuosi and three affiliated US-based entities of which he is the Chief Executive Officer — Tingo Group Inc., Agri-Fintech Holdings Inc., and Tingo International Holdings Inc. According to the commission, Mmobuosi is being charged in connection with an alleged multi-year scheme…

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The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) says no ransom was paid to secure the release of some of the Sokoto-bound Prospective Corps Members (PCM) kidnapped in Zamfara who regained freedom recently. The Director, Press and Public Relations, Mr Eddy Megwa, said this in a statement on Thursday in Abuja. Eight PCMs and a bus driver were abducted in August in Zamfara by gunmen on their way from Uyo, Akwa Ibom, to Sokoto. They were going for the commencement of the one-year national service orientation course. Megwa stated that the attention…

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